Monthly Archives: June 2006

BoxLayout vs. GridBagLayout

By Matthew Taylor | June 22, 2006

For as long as I’ve been programming, I’ve never liked using WYSIWYG editors to layout my GUI elements. This goes all the way back to when I was just beginning web programming and HTML markup. I paid a lot of money for the suite of Macromedia software, including Flash, Fireworks, Freehand, and Dreamweaver. [...]


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My first servlet app is online

By Matthew Taylor | June 19, 2006

In this weblog entry, I talked about how to turn on the invoker servlet in Tomcat 5.0.28. I’ve received some advice since then from members of the Kansas City JUG telling me never to use the invoker servlet. In fact, even the JavaRanch page I referred to in the previous post had a [...]


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Interesting Java 5.0 var-args usage

By Matthew Taylor | June 15, 2006

I was trying to make a quick pattern to pop up a (very) simple progress monitor for any task that might take a few seconds or so. I hate it when the user can’t do anything except wait for the gray box to disappear and release back control to the event-dispatching [...]


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Tomcat 5.0.28 Invoker Servlet

By Matthew Taylor | June 14, 2006

While setting up my first Apache Tomcat installation, I ran into a problem with the invoker servlet. The invoker servlet lets you run servlets without first making changes to the WEB-INF/web.xml file in your web application. All it really does is let Tomcat know that that any servlet classes dropped into the WEB-INF/classes [...]


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Check out the latest GroovyMag to see an interview with me about the 1.1 release of GrailsUI: